Essay/Term paper: Interstate regulations

Essay, term paper, research paper:  High School Essays

Interstate Speed Limitations



Everyone has heard that same old story of the person that is late for work that gets

pulled over for driving a couple miles over the speed limit. Due to being pulled over this

person is even more late to work. This would not hapen if states would abolish interstate

speed limits. If these governments rase or abolish their interstate speed limits they can

focus more on upholding other crimes that are plauging their cities.

In most cities the main concern is major crime. Thus is there are less police officers

sitting on the side of the road checking traffic speeds, they will be able to patrole our cities

and stop more crimes. It seems that if a city wants to cut back on their crime they have to

first make sacrafices.

Some states, take Montana for instance, have abolished interstate speed limits on

parts of their highways and have seen little change in the amount of accidents that take

place. If the question of city driving is brought up one can prove that during times of high

traffic the maximum speed is seldon reached, therefore a speed limit is not needed. This is

just proves that congestion in cities will, as it does now, will control the speed on these

interstates no matter what the given speed limits are.

The only people that really will be feeling the conciquences of this are local law

enforcement orginizations. Mainly because a lare sum of the money these governments

have to spend comes from the money made from these speeding tickets.